Part 3 of our Rankings Tutorial: Power Ratings
Every team that Maxpreps ranks, is first given a power rating. That rating is usually somewhere between a +75.0 and a -75.0. It is the computer's final assessment of your team's performance and the strength of your opponents, to date.
By performance, we mean not only if you won, but also if you scored and how much you scored. And did your opponents score, and how much did they score.
Power ratings are only based on actual games played against teams in your own Maxpreps division (11 man or 6-8 man). Also, only varsity-vs-varsity games are analyzed for rating purposes.
By performance, we mean not only if you won, but also if you scored and how much you scored. And did your opponents score, and how much did they score.
Power ratings are only based on actual games played against teams in your own Maxpreps division (11 man or 6-8 man). Also, only varsity-vs-varsity games are analyzed for rating purposes.
Let's look at this past weekend's games and see how the ratings will be effected by the outcomes over the weekend. In the chart below, you'll see the top 15 teams in Homeschool Division Two. We posted their power rating prior to the games; then we posted the opponent and that team's power rating.
Now let's analyze the final score and see how it jives with the expectations. If the score matches the expectations, then the teams involved will prbably keep their same power rating for another week. If one team did measurably stronger or weaker than the previous ratings would project, then a new rating will be issued.
Now let's analyze the final score and see how it jives with the expectations. If the score matches the expectations, then the teams involved will prbably keep their same power rating for another week. If one team did measurably stronger or weaker than the previous ratings would project, then a new rating will be issued.
| # | Team | Nat. Rank | Overall W/L | Old Power Rating | Week 7 Opponent | Opp. Rating | Actual Score | New Power Rating | New Nat. Rank | New # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FEAST (San Antonio, TX) | 100 | 5-2 | 47.3 | @ San Marcos | -18.9 | 50-18w | 44.8 | ↓124 | 1 |
| 2 | Evangel Chr.(Alabaster, AL) | 129 | 6-0 | 43.1 | @ Heritage | -26.3 | 57-0w | 43.8 | ↓134 | 2 |
| 3 | Carolina Wildcats (Pickens, SC) | 234 | 4-0 | 33.3 | vs. Airborne | -13.5 | 0-8L | 33.6 | ↑231 | 3 |
| 4 | Hope Christian (Pelham, AL) | 312 | 8-0 | 26.4 | vs. Chr. Comm. | -0.5 | 60-14w | 26.5 | ↓318 | 5 |
| 5 | Capital Christian (Austin, TX) | 365 | 6-0 | 22.3 | @ CenTex | -1.3 | 34-38L | 17.3 | ↓457 | 7 |
| 6 | FAITH (Stephenville, TX) | 385 | 5-2 | 21.3 | @ Johnson | 15.7 | 98-50w | 30.3 | ↑270 | 4 |
| 7 | Johnson County (Joshua, TX) | 489 | 3-3 | 15.7 | vs. FAITH | 21.3 | 50-98L | 9.5 | ↓600 | 11 |
| 8 | BVCHEA (Bryan, TX) | 535 | 3-3 | 12.6 | vs. Live Oak | 46.2 | 47-62L | 15.9 | ↑480 | 9 |
| 9 | FISH (Brandon, FL) | 544 | 6-1 | 12.0 | @ Clearwater | 20.6 | 6-0w | 17.4 | ↑455 | 6 |
| 10 | El Paso HmS (El Paso, TX) | 550 | 3-2 | 11.7 | vs. Ft Hancock | 15.8 | 60-24w | 16.7 | ↑466 | 8 |
| 11 | THESA (Fort Worth, TX) | 652 | 4-3 | 6.4 | @ Phoenix | -10.0 | 46-0w | 10.5 | ↑577 | 10 |
| 12 | Bastrop Tribe (Bastrop, TX) | 662 | 4-3 | 5.8 | vs. Faith West | 30.4 | 34-62L | 4.6 | ↓695 | 14 |
| 13 | Coastal HmS (Pembroke, GA) | 685 | 5-3 | 4.7 | @ Twiggs | -55.4 | 66-0w | 4.8 | ↓690 | 13 |
| 14 | OKC Patriots (OKC, OK) | 699 | 3-4 | 3.4 | @ Mt St. Mary | -6.0 | 8-48L | 3.5 | ↓712 | 15 |
| 15 | Fort Bend (Rosenberg, TX) | 750 | 5-2 | 0.9 | vs. Faith Chr | -75.2 | 61-0w | -0.6 | ↓762 | 18 |
~David Van When Maxpreps finishes their regular updates and reassesses the teams' performances (done by Freeman Scoring), then the teams were all re-ranked by their updates power rating. This is how the national ranking numbers are assigned.
Let's look at how the Monday ratings are impacted by the performances of this previous weekend:
Let's look at how the Monday ratings are impacted by the performances of this previous weekend:
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